This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 480 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 480 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A character that changes/learns something throughout a story. They may learn a lesson, become bad, or change in complex ways. A) Static character. B) Dynamic character. C) Flat character. D) Round character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dynamic character. 2. Courage, we had and strength enough.Select the correct answer. A) Metaphor. B) Vivid word choice. C) Poetic inversion. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetic inversion. 3. A stanza with eight lines is called A) Sestet. B) Octave. C) Quatrain. D) Septet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Octave. 4. Giving nonliving objects or animals human characteristics A) Flashback. B) Foreshadowing. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 5. The use of sensory details in a literary work is called A) Imagery. B) Oxymoron. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 6. This is apart of author's craft, and it is used to help bring the writing to life. This could be exaggeration, comparing things using like/as, or sound words. A) Point of View. B) Author's Purpose. C) Static Character. D) Figurative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Figurative Language. 7. Which is an example of FLASHBACK? A) The end of a season finale on TV where we don't know who died and can't find out until next season. B) In Hatchet, when Brian dropped the hatchet in the lake, and we didn't know if he'd get it. C) In Hatchet, the pilot having severe chest pains and gas. D) Brian, from Hatchet, remembering what he saw his mother doing with a stranger. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brian, from Hatchet, remembering what he saw his mother doing with a stranger. 8. Loose ends are tied, the story draws to a complete close. A) Climax. B) Rising action. C) Falling action/resolution. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Falling action/resolution. 9. What is the writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses? A) Literal Language. B) Figurative Language. C) Poetic Language. D) Sensory Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sensory Language. 10. The snow is like a blanket of white. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 11. The audience knows that Patrick borrowed his brother's bike without permission and that it was stolen while he had it. When Patrick's brother asks him if he has seen his bike, Patrick says, "It isn't my bike. Why would I know what happened to it?" A) Verbal. B) Situational. C) Dramatic. D) Not Ironic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic. 12. Which term refers to the use of detailed and vivid description to create pictures, or images, in the reader's mind? A) Symbolism. B) Personification. C) Flashback. D) Foreshadowing. E) Imagery tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Imagery tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4. 13. Study of the influence of the stars on humans A) Astronomy. B) Astrogeology. C) Astrology. D) Astrometry. E) Astronautics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Astrology. 14. When a word sounds like what it is. Examples:whack, buzz, tinkle, sizzle, pop, and ding A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 15. Freedom A) Abstract. B) Concrete. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abstract. 16. Which of these is an example of a juxtaposition? A) The triple bacon cheeseburger glistened with health and good choices. B) I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!. C) Buzz, boom, chirp, creak, sizzle, zoom, etc. D) It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. . Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. . 17. Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate! A) Rhyme. B) Anaphora. C) Allegory. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 18. New York is a city that never sleeps. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Idiom. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 19. A character that contrasts with another character to highlight qualities of the other character. A) Foil. B) Static. C) Dynamic. D) Protagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foil. 20. "Steak is a quality meat taken from the hindquarters of an animal; typically cut in thick slices." A) Denotation. B) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denotation. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesLiterary Devices Quiz 1Literary Devices Quiz 2Literary Devices Quiz 3Literary Devices Quiz 4Literary Devices Quiz 5Literary Devices Quiz 6Literary Devices Quiz 7Literary Devices Quiz 8Literary Devices Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books